Altered Ego

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Altered Ego

Who are you in the digital realm? Your avatar, your videogame skin, your alter ego.  Second-year students, led by Harriet Davey, crafted digital alter egos from scratch. They used Daz, Blender, and VR to explore an alternate personality or expression through the digital self.

Workshop (2025) with Harriet Davey

Assistants
Elodie Anglade
Students
Andreas Abbaszadeh, Brikeld Hoxha, Dalia Spichtig, Daniel Rocha, Jonathan Vögele, Laurine Gigandet, Nyria Graber, Shana Meinecke, Steve Bouillant, Teo Grajqevci
Know-how
3D Graphics

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Steve Bouillant - Bakoly
Dalia Spichtig - Sevy
Teo Grajqevci - Octane
Shana Meinecke - Ame
Nyria Graber - Sayla
Laurine Gigandet - Asmodée
Jonathan Vögele - Margeritte
Daniel Rocha - Cosmo
Brikeld Hoxha - Valentino
Andreas Abbaszadeh - Texas
Elodie Anglade - Moss Mother

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Elena Biasi – Magnetic Fragments

BA MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Elena Biasi – Magnetic Fragments

with Pauline Saglio, Christophe Guignard, Laura Nieder, Alain Bellet, Gaël Hugo, Lara Défayes

Before the rise of digital technology and social networks, everyday moments were captured on analog media and watched with family in one uninterrupted flow. These long VHS tapes, composed of successive sequences, gradually disappeared, victims of their obsolescence. Magnetic Fragments offers a way to rediscover these forgotten memories through a three-dimensional web interface, where each bubble represents a memory to explore and comment on. Designed for a private circle, the collaborative platform allows free navigation, revisiting each memory fragments in a dynamic way and breaking with the monotonous structure of past viewings. Magnetic Fragments thus becomes a space for intergenerational transmission, where the past is shared in the present.
Ayten Gönel – Tied Realities

BA MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Ayten Gönel – Tied Realities

with Pauline Saglio, Christophe Guignard, Alain Bellet, Gaël Hugo, Lara Défayes, Laura Nieder

Tied Realities is an interactive virtual reality (VR) experience that questions the relationship between material and immaterial space. In VR, physical space is rarely considered a constraining parameter in the creation of the environment. the project seeks to reverse this logic by integrating a physical constraint at the heart of the virtual experience. Plunged into an oppressive environment, each participant is invited to interact with an device that binds their wrists and restricts their movements. This device acts as a material representation of the discomfort felt by the protagonist in VR, which becomes the central element of the narrative, structuring the environment and interactions. Tied Realities then allows to experience the friction between digital freedom and physical limits.
Delphine Brantschen – What Remains to Be Stitched

BA GRAPHIC DESIGN

Delphine Brantschen – What Remains to Be Stitched

by Delphine Brantschen

What Remains to Be Stitched is an interactive website shaped as a memory palace. Through her mother's oral accounts, the graphic designer weaves together Brazil's past  into 3D icons and narrative fragments. No objects or images have been preserved from this life — only words. These words are my only inheritance. But what remains when even she no longer remembers them? Blending graphic design, modeling, point clouds and spatial storytelling, the project explores a poetic form of transmission, stitching memories to preserve a fragile link between memory, culture and identity.
Alexine Sierro – Spira Memoriae

BA MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Alexine Sierro – Spira Memoriae

with Pauline Saglio, Christophe Guignard, Alain Bellet, Gaël Hugo, Laura Nieder, Lara Défayes

In a world where ecosystems are dying out and certain smells are evaporating, what is happening to the places and stories that gave them form? Spira Memoriae is an immersive olfactory experience in virtual reality that invites users to journey through a fragmented sensory world. Original fragrances, created in collaboration with perfumer Tennessee Macdougall, extend the reflection through the language of odours. Beacons of an abstract landscape, they reveal rare materials, sometimes extinct, but still present in our collective memory. Spira Memoriae explores the tensions between disappearance and persistence, industry and territory, reality and reconstruction. Smell becomes a vehicle for storytelling, transmission and shared fiction.
(Re-)Viewing Paik – 2025

(Re-)Viewing Paik – 2025

with Patrick Keller, François Bovier, Erika Marthins

A comparative and practice-based study on the transformative effects at play in the digital and hybrid exhibition of a body of non-digital native artworks (some artworks by artist Nam June Paik serving as a mean of understanding).

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